Pimping your router

I'm planning ahead, with mind to improve streaming. Has to be via wifi. Have an LPS ordered for my modem and wireless router. Also bought a TP-Link repeater for my streamer, as it has an ethernet port. Will go Meicord Opal to streamer.

Considering for next year:

1. Fidelizer Airstream wireless router.

2. EtherRegen.

Where should I put a network bridge in this chain? Are there any with less than 8 ports?

Then will look at a clock a little later for the EtherRegen.

Thanks. I’d thought the EtherRegen should be last thing into the streamer. Have bought an 0.25m Meicord Opal for that task.

Have thought about cleaning up the signal from the repeater’s ethernet out. Options? Read about the Eno passive filter as a possibility. Others?

Will have to sell some gear in the new year, and can then look at getting an EtherRegen, plus an LPS for it. Have bought a few things in the last couple of months. A modded Dac, Project streamer, Akiko Tuning Stick and Tuning Chip, Black Ravioli Big pads, 2 x Meicord Opals, 2 x LPSs, a wifi extender, as well as had my amp recapped. Have also ordered SR Purple fuses for my amp and Dac.

That's been a busy couple of months.

@gladmo 

Sorry for the delayed response.

I have the Stack Audio SmoothLan in. But cancelled my Qobuz subscription of the summer. Will reactivate that in March, and evaluate the SmoothLan then.

Looking at purchasing a Stack Audio SmoothLan network filter.

Have had success with Stack Audio products.

Auva 70 under my speakers, and Auva EQ under my Puritan PSM156.

@lalitk 

That is an important point for those who have streamers with a 1Gb/s interface.

From what I understand a 100 mbit/s interface is very common in streamers. As mine is. So will be fine. 😀

@lalitk

And in answer to your question, yes, I have ordered a Stack Audio SmoothLan.

 

...while I originally used the Acoustic Revive RLT1 filter on my streamer and then Etherregen, I have now moved it to the Draytek Vigor 2860 router, i.e. right at the entry point of public ADSL. The resultant clean up of soundstage, insteument timbre, attack and decay is simply unbelievable. Very highly recommended.

I will end up moving things around a little when the SmoothLan arrives:

- Acoustic Revive RLI-1GB-Triple C LAN Isolator between router and first network switch

Need to install a 30 feet length of ethernet cable (probably Supra Cat8). Then...

- Pink Faun LAN Isolator from wall ethernet outlet to 2nd network switch

- Stack Audio SmoothLan between 2nd network switch and streamer 

Haven't yet resubscribed to Qobuz. Will be a few weeks away. 

Some changes though:

Have upgraded my wifi router to an Asus RT AX86U Pro

Replaced LPS fuses on switches and wifi router with SR Orange

Changed my modem LPS to a FiiO PL50, with a HiFi Tuning Supreme fuse for it

Ordered a set of IsoAcoustics Gaia III to go under my system rack

Ordered a Furutech NCF FI-33 IEC inlet for my Puritan PSM156

Upgraded my modem cable Canare L4.5CHD coax cable with Canare connectors

Have Blue Jeans Cat 6a Horizontal in wall ethernet cable to install and replace my wifi extender

Upgraded my power cables to Mad Scientist Black Magic Ultra

Replaced an Uptone Audio USB Regen with an ISO Regen

Upgraded Mad Scientist Black Magic Ultra USB cable to a Mad Scientist Black Magic Gold